A mule will labor ten years willingly and patiently for you, for the privilege of kicking you once.
WILLIAM FAULKNERThe next time you try to seduce anyone, don’t do it with talk, with words.
More William Faulkner Quotes
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So, never be afraid. Never be afraid to raise your voice for honesty and truth and compassion, against injustice and lying and greed.
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Artists do; I don’t mean you need to live in a rat hole or gutter, but you have to learn fortitude, endurance. Only vegetables are happy.
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Don’t do what you can do – try what you can’t do.
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There is no such thing as bad whiskey. Some whiskeys just happen to be better than others. But a man shouldn’t fool with booze until he’s fifty; then he’s a damn fool if he doesn’t.
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My own experience has been that the tools I need for my trade are paper, tobacco, food, and a little whisky.
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They say that it is the practiced liar who can deceive. But so often the practiced and chronic liar deceives only himself; it is the man who all his life has been selfconvicted of veracity whose lies find quickest credence.
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You cannot swim for new horizons until you have courage to lose sight of the shore.
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You can’t beat women anyhow and that if you are wise or dislike trouble and uproar you don’t even try to.
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The writer’s only responsibility is to his art.
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A fellow is more afraid of the trouble he might have than he ever is of the trouble he’s already got. He’ll cling to trouble he’s used to before he’ll risk a change.
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A writer is congenitally unable to tell the truth and that is why we call what he writes fiction.
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Someone else looks at it and sees a slightly awry phase of it. But taken all together, the truth is in what they saw though nobody saw the truth intact.
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And even a liar can be scared into telling the truth, same as honest man can be tortured into telling a lie.
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The work never matches the dream of perfection the artist has to start with.
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Pouring out liquor is like burning books.
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